This article is a co-creation by Laura Burlacu and Daan Fliervoet
In 2003 a workshop hosted by the Latvian RIXC electronic media center first introduced the locative media, a term which has since been used to describe a new media practice which aims at “creating a kind of geospatial experience whose aesthetics can be said to rely upon…
Tuesday the 6th of December 2011. Trending topic on Twitter is #nederlandvanboven. Non-Dutch users are confused, what is this hashtag so many people are tweeting about? It is the television documentary Nederland van Boven (the Netherlands from above), inspired on its UK equivalent ‘Britain from Above’, that shows patterns by linking footage filmed from a sky perspective to enormous databases…
Newroz is a traditional Iranian new year holiday celebrated by Kurdish people between March 18 and 21. During this year's celebrations, unnecessary police violence resulted in the death of a politician in Turkey. However, since Turkey lifted the ban on Newroz celebrations in 2000, it also reclaimed the event as a Turkish celebration and its spelling with a 'w' still remains illegal. In Turkey, the celebration is officially spelled with a v: Nevruz. I queried Google News (with language settings set to English) for these two different spellings referring to the same celebration and was met with different world views and prioritization of news content. Furthermore, querying Google Images for these two terms show how the Turkish government has reclaimed Newroz as a very Turkish celebration of coming of spring.
I’ve got a confession to make. When I’m watching the news and the newscaster starts talking about the national and global economy, I find hard to maintain interest. Of course, this is due to the fact that it is complicated matter. As I’m certainly not the only one, Dutch news broadcaster NOS is also aware of this fact. At the…
When you walk over the Dam square in Amsterdam, volunteers for various charity organization are scanning the crowd for potential contributors. Using appealing stories to convince the person into making a donation. It’s hard to keep track of the charities accomplishments. The newsletters you receive as a contributor leave everything to the imagination. Why should these organizations start using data…
In an era of internet users actively creating their own content, easily accessible tools are available for the public to create their own data visualizations. Applications like Many Eyes or Tableau Public give statistic enthusiasts the appropriate possibilities to show their work in a graphical way. Otto Neurath, one of the prime members of the Vienna Circle, was the creator…
Europe is ‘sitting’ on a supply that has a potential market value of billions of Euro, that could encourage new innovations, and that could increase the transparency and governance of public life. That resource is the data held by European public sector bodies. Many of these public authorities and services collect or create information relevant to their operations – from…
Show me the data is an annual conference about data visualizations, developed by multidisciplinary students of the master New Media and Computer Science at the UvA and Editorial Design at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (maHKU). Six teams of students will show their projects, which are interactive data visualizations on various topics, and there will…
Two levels of information processing
Our world is saturated with information. Images, objects, texts, numbers, audio, moving visuals, and everything in between. There’s a reason some call the present the Information Age and invent terms like informatization. [1]
All of this information is processed on two equally important levels. On the first level there is the receiver. This receiver can…
What did you have for breakfast? It’s an easy enough question. But how about, where did your breakfast come from? Using innovative data visualization tools, a growing number of developers and activists have created dynamic ways in which human consumers interact with their food systems, such as tracking the geographic journey of their food from farm to table. In this…
Data visualizations have to deal with the hard task of presenting data in such a way that the intention of the visualization becomes clear to the audience. Using literature dealing with the translation of data into design and the cultural meanings of colors, symbols, text and images, I explore the problem of cultural bias in developing data visualizations.
Applying Foucault's idea of panoptic modality of power to branded data visualizations.
It has been well documented that Obama’s fast and steady rise to the steps of the White House was partly due to an uncanny mixture of classical grassroots politics and the embrace of new technology (read social media). The visual appeal of the campaign has been lauded widely and Obama’s early design director, Scott Thomas published a crowdfunded book laying out…
Experience and youth are combined every year in Show Me the Data, an event organized by the University of Amsterdam and the Utrecht Graduate School of the Arts in which different groups of master students introduce data visualization projects developed in multidisciplinary teams during an eight weeks course. This year, three relevant guest speakers gave talks and offered their…
Come along at Trouw on Tuesday 24 April for a new mind-blowing edition of PechaKucha Amsterdam! Golfstromen invited 12 great presenters, so expect fascinating stories, ideas and doses of inspiration, bound by the world-famous rule of 20 slides x 20 seconds. Tickets are available…
This lengthy post is part of a Critical Media Art Course. The theme of the week was "Life", and the readings provided focused on Bioart, and the concerns around it. Following an introduction to the term of Bioart, concerns and ethics are introduced, followed by a selection of artworks which, we believe, are important to the theme despite the significant differences between artworks.
Foto van Leontien Prenger
Vrijdag 27 april vond het eerste evenement van Foam Lab 2012 plaats: ‘Deleted / Seen’. Een avond die de bezoekers een blik laat werpen op beeld dat vandaag de dag wordt ondergewaardeerd door de aanwezigheid van imperfecties. Glitch art was hier met andere woorden een belangrijk thema; ‘het presenteren van digitale fouten als kunst’.
Bij…
In these 26 and 27 April Amsterdam received The Next Web conference in the Westegasfabriek. The conference is focused in business and populated by many startup and investors. The projects presented in the conference were new technological products.
The first talk in the conference was from Alexis Ohanian one of the…
Tijdens: Private Parts Vrijdagavond 29 juni
Na het succesvolle evenement Deleted / Seen organiseert Foam Lab vandaag haar tweede evenement: Private Parts. Naast dat hier een bijzondere kans wordt geboden om het fotografische talent in jezelf te ontdekken, is dit ook de uitgelezen kans om ongegeneerd op gluurjacht te gaan en om te leren van bekende en vakkundige fotografen.…
This post contains the abstract and download link to a thesis project which examines the infamous online forum 4chan and its most notorious image board, known as /b/.